<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ahhh - great advice to you, Ms. Hege - </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Remember that humans are amazing. And yes - it is a practice of faith.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Selecting the right process for the job. Doing thoughtful thorough pre-work. Then...</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Trusting the process, trusting the humans.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">B-r-e-a-t-h-i-n-g.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">And remembering perhaps that we are all there with you, in spirit.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You said:</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">to really emphasize the importance of work <br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">moral, short brakes and fleksebillity, and accountability fram everyone.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div>Now you know - and perhaps your client does as well - a motivational lecture (as you mention they may want - in your earlier message) does not deliver that.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">a couple of days to motivate and empower</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the leaderteam in the production</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hmmm. Open Space delivers that - especially if top management thinks before the event about how they may wish to support and continue the conversation, ideas and relationships that are generated during the Open Space.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You can talk to your client about Open Space in terms of what it delivers - how it fits the task / the objectives.</div></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br>One more thing I might add - if you do choose to do Open Space - do not let your anxiety or theirs cause you to break Open Space apart into something that is sort of / not quite Open Space - just to fit in those traditional things they are used to doing. If you are going to do Open Space, do full-form Open Space - the complete process.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">And try to get the longest uninterrupted time possible for the Open Space - if it is to be Open Space. Peoples' thinking deepens - and reflective thinkers get to participate as much as quick-responders - when there is enough time for agenda creation, multiple sessions and sessions that are not rushed, and enough time for a thoughtful, reflective closing circle. </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">More time also makes the documentation component easier for everyone to complete within the time of the meeting itself.</div><div><br></div></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">If for some reason they need a speaker (so sad but sometimes true) try to get that (as an example) on the Friday night during dinner. And your Open Space can be the next two full days. Or whatever timing does not have people sitting / listening to one person in the middle of the Open Space. You want these people to get right into the work rather than have their bodies go to rest as listeners-not-doers.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This is all what I would say for any group of humans - including production line workers, including ship builders.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You can help them surprise themselves - and remember the spirit in their work.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">They are lucky to have you,</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Lisa</div></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div> </div></div></body></html>